
AVP, Head of Pricing
- Taguig City, Metro Manila
- Permanent
- Full-time
Statistics
Life
2022
Based on Paid-Up Capital2
Statistics
Life
2022
Based on New Business Annual Premium Equivalent The AVP Head of Pricing leads the actuarial pricing function, ensuring that product pricing is competitive, compliant, and aligned with FWD’s customer-led and digitally enabled strategy. The role is responsible for developing pricing models, setting assumptions, and coordinating with cross-functional teams to launch new and enhanced life insurance products that reflect FWD’s mission to “celebrate living.1. Strategy and Framework Development
- Serving as a key advisor, identify and direct enterprise-wide strategy projects and oversee execution of related deliverables for the financial technology market
- Lead cross-functional teams in developing and implementing strategic roadmaps, managing key interviews, leading workshops, and conducting industry research through secondary and primary resources
- Act as the primary team interface with various levels of client executives up to and including C-Level
- Manage pricing strategy, processes, systems, and reporting
- Ensure effective adoption of pricing guidelines
- Coordinate with subsidiaries and other departments to plan and implement new pricing on core products and new features.
- Gather and analyze information on market trends and industry competitors
- Identify and analyze factors that influence customers’ capacity and willingness to purchase, including economic conditions, market trends, pricing, and availability of similar products, and more
- Identify and analyze the ideal packaging value mix for a portfolio of management services, and payment processing capabilities
- Develop and present business cases for new monetization strategies
- Prepare market forecast reports focused on conditions that are likely to affect pricing and sales of products
- Work with functional teams and groups to achieve product-related metrics such as economic and non-economic assumptions specifically and profitability as well as resilience generally.
- Provide estimate of IFRS 17 items and profitability projections for different product mixes, operating results and scenarios.
- Do other pricing-related activities as directed by Chief Actuary, Chief Finance Officer and Group Office
- At least an Associate of the Actuarial Society of the Philippines (AASP) or Associate of the Society of Actuaries (ASA) is expected.
- Fellowship status (FASP or FSA) is highly desirable, especially for senior leadership roles.
- Familiarity with IFRS 17, local regulatory frameworks, and actuarial modeling tools (e.g., Prophet) is also a strong advantage
- At least 6-7 years actuarial experience
- Proficient in Excel/macro programming; background in Prophet very favorable
- At least an Associate of the Actuarial Society of the Philippines (Senior Associate preferred with at least 7 years working experience, has worked with a multinational life insurance co.
- Proficiency in creating/developing pricing models for new products in Excel; able to write macro programs
- Proficiency in setting pricing assumptions; able to rationalize assumptions through experience review, market comparison and culling of industry experience/assumptions
- Knowledge to perform a reasonable review of forms, contracts, sales illustrations
- Experience in product submission to the IC; can maintain good communication lines/correspondence with IC Actuarial.
- Can carefully review/make corrections to Product Gate submissions prepared by Product Management team
- Experience in conducting Experience Studies (e.g. Expense Analysis, Mortality, Persistency, Withdrawal Experience Study, etc.)